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"Evvy! There, you see? I warn and warn you, and now it’s happened You never listen"
That was Dedicate Fusspot calling out from the deck His real naood reasons
"You went over the rail You nearly dropped straight into the ocean just no ood way to drown You never knohen a swell like that one will overtake us!" Myrrhtide was coed myself back on deck and faced him Myrrhtide annoyed me He wasn’t old He wasn’t in his forties, like Rosethorn--ray hairs I couldn’t even see any a old, when he hadn’t earned the right to do so
He also couldn’t learn that I don’t like to be touched The first tirabbed ot that I was supposed to behave I drew a knife on hiry Since Lark and my first teacher, Briar, had ordered me never to upset Rosethorn, I was careful not to let Myrrhtide grabout to take hold ofer "What swell? Luvo says it was a waking tre in water that you felt in stone, Evvy" Rosethorn came forward to join us She had to talk extra-carefully because she was dead once Briar and his sisters uards the dead, has to be paid so for his trouble For Rosethorn, he didn’t take the sharpness fro "Evvy, I thought you couldn’t feel the stone at the botto for me not to feel It was like the whole bottom rose up, only it was underneath"
Myrrhtide sniffed "It was power transferred through the water, not under it"
"And I knohen stone’s " I hate it when he corrects lared at us so hard I felt crisp around the edges "The world’s strength was on the move Leave it at that"
"I don’t knohy you support her" Myrrhtide could never let anything be "She is only a child I a Circle I ae the movement and manner of power below us"
Rosethorn’s eyes sparked She was going to say so dreadful, I knew it Then the breeze puffed and blew her wide-briht and beetles Myrrhtide, Evvy has had specialized education Noould you th of the ship
Myrrhtide stared at her Then he walked off, his Water-blue habit fluttering behind him I heard him mutter, "Specialized education, indeed!"
Rosethorn ran her fingers through her hair She kept it cropped short like a man’s, which I didn’t understand It was a beautiful dark carnelian red I’d have let it grow even longer than my own black hair, which came down to my waist when I let it out of its braid Not Rosethorn Except for keeping her skin white and soft with crea hats, Rosethorn didn’t care about her looks, and she had looks She didn’t have a long, flat-ended nose, like mine Hers was nice and small Her lips were even a natural reddish color Mine were just wide My skin is Yanjing gold brown, so I don’t have to worry about the sun as et interested in romance, I’ll have to pay attention towith hie You could borrow patience frorumbled "He doesn’t have to try and churn me all the time Don’t worry about Myrrhtide and me, Rosethorn"
"I’ bad reports of you to Winding Circle"
I didn’t like that thought, so I changed the subject I looked at Luvo, who sat on the deck between Rosethorn andtremors often?" I asked him "It’s not like ordinary earthquakes, where two slabs of rock are slipping together This isI have sensed such treth Prepare yourselves Another coripped the rail Luvo hardly ever gives orders Far below the ship, stone power rose to e, pressing like hot, solid water on asped The wave passed on, but the sense of stone didn’t die, not coes ofocean floor
A ridge! There was a ridge underneath the ship, three hundred yards below! I could feel basalt--good, cal slabs of it!
Myrrhtide ca arm of seawater with Rosethorn’s hat on top of it It passed the hat to Myrrhtide, who patted the tentacle as he’d pet a good dog The water dropped back into the sea Myrrhtide offered the hat to Rosethorn
"Thank you" She ran her fingers over the hat The seawater dropped out of it I guess she s that had been plants, to do al